road toll transponder hacked

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:55:57 +0200
Stefan Kelm <stefan.kelm at secorvo.de> wrote:

> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect is in operation in entire
> >> Germany. It does OCR on all license plates (also used for police
> >> purposes in realtime, despite initial vigorous denial) but
> >> currently is only used for truck toll.
> >>
> > How well does that actually work?  There were many articles in RISKS
> > Digest about problems with the early deployment.
> 
> That's true wrt to early deployment. Given that the Toll Collect
> system has been up and running since January 2005 it (technically)
> runs surprisingly well. They have improved tremendously and are
> likely to sell their technology to other european countries.
> 
I confess that from a privacy perspective, I'd prefer if it didn't work
that well...

Thanks.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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